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At the beginning of the 19th century Maria Malibran was idolised in much the same way as her latter-day counterpart, Cecilia Bartoli, is today.

Bartoli's programme celebrating Malibran recreates the repertoire the Spanish diva's audience would have swooned over.

We had music by Malibran's father (the teacher Manuel Garcia), Rossini (comedy from Cenerentola, tragedy from Otello), Bellini (La Sonnambula), plus two novelty items: a ballad by Balfe (of Come into the Garden, Maud fame) and a yodelling song by Hummel.

Bartoli rattled it all off with bravura. She may not have been quite at her incandescent best - a recent cold was apologised for - but she has no equal in either technique or her ability to win the affections of her audience.

Her accompanists, the aptly named Orchestra La Scintilla of Zurich, provided the most stylish of backdrops and interpolated instrumental items by Mendelssohn, Rossini, Donizetti and the Belgian violinist Charles de Bériot, whom Malibran married just before the end of her short life. She died at the age of 28 after a riding accident, an abrupt end to a colourful career which can be traced in an exhibition drawn from Bartoli's own collection.

Tomorrow, returns only (020 7638 8891).

Cecilia Bartoli
Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre
Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS